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The Privacy Policy page on the UIDAI website claims to not use cookies. This is their section on use of cookies: Cookies A cookie is a piece of software code that an Internet website sends to your browser when you access information in that site. This site does not useRead more…

In October 2017, the RBI announcedਇੱਕ ਉੱਚ ਪੱਧਰ ਦੀ ਟਾਸਕ ਫੋਰਸthat would study and help set up a transparent and comprehensive public credit registry (PCR). The RBI's PCR was intended to be "an extensive database of credit information for India that is accessible to all stakeholders". The PCR was intended to help improve efficiencies in the Indian credit market, aid financial inclusion, help control deliquencies and in general improve the ease of doing business.(more…)

The UIDAI keeps insisting that Aadhaar is secure. Biometics can’t be bypassed, enrolment software can’t be hacked, and so on. So I put together a quick list. This list is under construction. Keep checking for updates. April 2012: An enrolment agent was found to have issued 30,000 Aadhaar cards inRead more…

Chandigarh: In yet another blow to the much touted Aadhaar eco-system, a recent case of a huge “scam” involving Aadhaar seeding of a large number of ration cards with unique identity (UID) numbers of those not entitled to subsidised ration has come to light in the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer AffairsRead more…

3 people were arrested and three web cameras, one cooling pad, three laptops, three LCDs, a biometric machine, a finger-print scanner, 65 Aadhar cards, one PAN card, eight voter IDs, lamination machines and other equipment were confiscated during a raid in Pachchhaiya in Amroha. Acting on a tip off, AmrohaRead more…

(Concern raised in this tweet by data security researcher Srinivas Kodali) In its Regional Conference on Child Marriage held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, earlier this year, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) brought out recommendations for implementation by various state governments “so that the menace of child marriage is curbed andRead more…

Recently the UK based company, Cambridge Analytica has beenਖਬਰ ਵਿਚfor illegally harvesting user data from Facebook and enabling the use of this stolen data to influence the US Presidential election in 2016 in favour of Donald Trump. Cambridge Analytica has also been linked to several other elections including the Brexit referendum that led to Britain leaving the EU.(more…)

Aadhaar enrollment operators use a software provided by the UIDAI to collect or update information about individuals to be entered or updated into the Aadhaar database. This software is called the ECMP (Enrollment Client Multi Platform) and the UIDAI has claimed in the Supreme Court that it is extremely secure,Read more…

An Andhra Pradesh government maintained website has hosted a dashboard app that can search people in 13 districts using “religion” and “caste” amongst other categories. According to Huffingtonpost India, the dashboard in the aforementioned website, allows anyone to search for data based on terms such as “Hindu”, “Muslim”, “Zoroastrian” andRead more…

Frequent warnings by banks and police are apparently not the solution to combating debit/credit card fraud. The Hindu reports that Cyber Cell officials in Kerala’s Kozhikode district are discovering three new cases every month on average. The victims are usually educated middle-class families or the elderly, and many are yetRead more…

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